The Good Evil Transformation Essay, Research Paper

The Good Evil Transformation

Hamlet’s transforms from good to evil in the play Hamlet by Shakespeare.

Hamlet experiences a lot of pain and becomes very anger because of his father’s

death, his mother’s bad remarriage, and the loss of his only love, Ophelia. The

losses that Hamlet has to deal with are the anger and lack of forgiveness build in

himself. This allows Hamlet’s true thoughts and character to be revealed

through his soliloquies.

First, Hamlet reveals his wishes that he could just melt away and be gone;

because if he dies, he would be free from the world. Hamlet thinks about how

his father was a leader and went from a noble king to a king that does not desire

to help his people and serve his country. Hamlet loves the power and the fame

that is comes with being a king. Hamlet also shows his anger and disbelief with

women in general “ Frailty, thy name is women” like his mother and her bad

marriage with Clauduis. Hamlet says he is “sick at heart” over his father’s death

and his mother’s remarriage. Hamlet finds out that his uncle Clauduis has killed

the King, Hamlet’s father. The ghost of Hamlet’s father tells him to try and seek

revenge against Clauduis who was responsible for the king’s murder. So,

Hamlet needs to kill Clauduis to avenge his father’s death. Hamlet must kill his

uncle and get his innocent hands full of blood, so he can avenge his father’s

death.

Hamlet now turns into a deceitful person. He now tries to come up with a

plan to kill Clauduis for his crime. Hamlet starts to question his ability to get

revenge for his father’s death. He wonders if he is too much of a coward. Hamlet

starts to think if it is better to live life with the pain of his father’s murder or try

to get revenge by killing his uncle Clauduis. Hamlet believes that death is the

same as going to sleep, forever. Hamlet thinks if he could go into a deep sleep

that would stop all the pain and suffering plus all his sorrow and he would be

happy to do it. Hamlet hesitates about taking his own life and falling asleep

forever because, he thinks that when he is asleep he will have dreams and the

dreams he will be very disturbing to him.

For the first time, Hamlet meets his mother in privacy. At least that is

what he thinks. He starts to discuss his feelings of his mother, but he vows that

he will speak daggers, but he will never actually use one. While Hamlet speaks

with his mother, someone else is listening to their every word. Polonius has

devised a plan to hide himself behind a curtain in the room and listen in on

Hamlet and his mother’s conversation to find out if Hamlet has gone mad.

Hamlet discovers that there is something behind the curtain. He thinks that it is

Clauduis hiding behind the curtains and that he will finally get revenge like the

ghost asked him to. Hamlet thinks his quest to avenge his father’s death is about

to end. But, he is going to find out that it is not true. His ambition gets the best

of him, and he does not think correctly. Hamlet kills the great Polonius. Before

this event, Hamlet is known to use his intelligence before he commits a task, but

this one action seemed to change his fate. He later blames his madness as being

responsible for the death of Polonius.

Hamlet is now starting to lose his mind. Hamlet now takes time to think

of all the events that have just occurred. Everything is not going his way, makes

his revenge for his father’s murder very difficult. “He that hath made us with

large discourse and the incapability of making godlike reason, made us only

contain one part wisdom and three parts coward.” With this, he questions why

he still lives to say these words. “Witness this army of such mass and charge, led

by a delicate and tender prince, whose spirit, with divine ambition puff’d.”

Hamlet emphasizes how a righteous and pure spirit becomes crushed by

ambition, the aspiration of becoming renowned and accepted. “My thoughts be

bloody or be nothing worth.” Hamlet has now revealed his own crisis. A

righteous and pure spirit that has been crushed by his longing revenge towards

Claudius.

In Hamlet by Williams Shakespeare, Hamlet’s character is perceived at

the beginning of the play as one of virtue and integrity. He becomes a victim of

evil and corruptness because he never forgives Claudius for murdering his father

and also never forgives his own mother for marrying Claudius. Hamlet’s

character transformation is very plain to see in the last line of his last soliloquy

“my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth.” He allows himself to become

someone that prospers off the thought of revenge, and this, ultimately, gets him

killed.

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